Improvement in cider-mills



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Patented Ian. 2, 1872.

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DANIEL T. WILLSON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,508, dated January2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

.Beitknown that I, DANIEL T. WILLsoN, of Harrisburg, in the county ofDauphin and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Cider- Mills; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference markedthereon making a part of this specification.

My invention is intended as an improvement upon the cider-mill for whichLetters Patent No. 52,583 were granted Samuel Males. February 13, 1866;and it consists in the formation of the rollers with a groove betweenthe crushing parts and the cog-wheels; and'also in having one cog on thewheel for every rib and every groove on the roller, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will 'now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which'Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a bot tom view of my cider-mill.Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view, and Fig. 4 an enlarged longitudinalvertical section of one of the rollers.

A represents the framework of my machine; B B, the crushing-rollers,with cog-wheels O O at their ends and D, the hopper,.with anotherroller, E, within the same, said parts being the same, and operated inthe same manner as in the case of Males above referred to, with thefollowing exceptions, which I deem of vital importance to the practicaland successful working of the mill The roller B and its cog-wheel O arecast together in one piece, as shown in Fig. 4, wit-11 a deepcircumferential groove, a, between them. The hopper D fits in saidgroove between the cog and the crushing parts (ribs and grooves) of theroller, thus leaving the cog-wheels outside of the hopper. In the patentof Males the cogs are inside of the hopper, and the apples gather in theteeth and cause them to break and otherwise not opererate. In the caseof Males there are also more cogs in the wheels than there are ribs andgrooves on the rollers. In my case there is one cog on the wheel forevery rib and every groove on the roller, as shown in Fig. 3, in whichthe dotted line represents the cog-wheel, b b the cogs on the same, atthe ribs, and e the grooves on the roller. The advantage of this is,that when a farmer or other person takes my machine apart for repairs,&c., it can be easily and readily set together and operate at oncewhereas, if the cogs do not equal in number the ribs and grooves on therolls it would take considerable time to reset them together withoutknowing the marks; and if not set exactly to the marks, and the machinestarted to run, breakage would be sure to be the result.

Having thus fully described .my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The cog-wheel O and theribbed and grooved rollerB cast together with a groove, a, between themfor the insertion of the hopper sides, whereby the cog mechanism is onthe exterior and the crushing mechanism on the interior of said hopperof a cidermill, substantiall y as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. In a cider-mill, one or more grooved and ribbed rollers B cast in onepiece with cogwheel 0, and intervening groove a, the cogs on the wheel 0corresponding in number with the grooves and ribs on the roller,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony thatI claim theforegoin g I have hereunto set my hand this5th day of October, 1871.

DANIEL T. WILLSON.

Witnesses:

J. M. MAsoN, O. L. EvEn'r.

